Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious that the Arabs have come of age because they no longer rely on verbal barrage and senseless acts of terrorism to advance their interests...
...vocabulary--through which these personal problems and problems of sexual politics generally can be better understood. As remarkable as is the breakdown which often occurs in mixed groups, what is more remarkable is how little such breakdowns are understood if the group's members don't already have the verbal means to discuss their interactions. When double standards are applied, those culpable deny that their obvious self-contradictions are contradictory, sometimes contending that certain events are not really taking place...
...play The Reluctant Rapist would hold up very well. Bullins's sparse and direct prose reads more like stage directions in setting the scenes for his characters to deliver their earthy and vivid verbal banterings that make up the bulk of the work. But as a novel The Reluctant Rapist fails; it's characterizations shabby and incomplete, its treatment of the complexities of ghetto life simplistic...
Students with a 700 on the SAT verbal or a 4 or 5 on the English advanced placement exam currently qualify for middle-level expos couses. Evans said that if any students do receive exemption, they would be in this group, which this year numbers about 530 persons...
...earn a living in part by substitute teaching in the Cambridge high schools. While "teaching" at Rindge Teach, I have never been able to teach, esp. the 9th graders, I only collect paper-airplanes and yo-yos, while ducking as best I can the chalk, pennies, spitballs and verbal abuse ("spick," "queer", etc.); I consider myself lucky because I have never been assaulted, only threatened...